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Friday, February 19, 2010 - 8:01am By Matthew LawrenceA piece of erotic French history has been restored to its home country after nearly two centuries; yesterday the original manuscript of Casanova's memoirs was officially handed over to the French National Library, reports the Washington Post. An...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 5:50pm By Chris HallEven in our age of electronic information, where everything is tweeted, blogged, torrented, and kindled, books haven't completely lost their power. Not only are they a low-tech, portable way of storing information, they make much better gifts than...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 9:44am By John LeavittHow Sex Works: Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do By Sharon Moalem Harper Collins 26.99, 288 pp. Back during the beginning of railroads, many stations had a book lending program. You'd rent a book from your starting station...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 9:32am By Matthew LawrenceLolita author Vladimir Nabokov's been dead for thirty-two years, but that's not stopping publishers from releasing his newest novel on Tuesday. The Original Of Laura is the manuscript the revered author was working on at the time of his death in...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 9:13am By Matthew LawrenceA convicted wife-beater has been kicked off a Danish soccer team for publishing his autobiography, which contains a rant about how he hates gay people. Pinknews reports that Polish goalkeeper Arek Onyszko's new book, Fucking Polack, includes...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009 - 12:34pm By Matthew LawrenceIrene Vilar's Impossible Motherhood was released last week amid a flurry of press. Published by small imprint Other Press after rejections from over fifty other publishing houses, the book chronicles the fifteen abortions Vilar had between the...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 9:34am By Matthew LawrenceThree-month old blog Venus febriculosa is dedicated entirely to author Vladmimir Nabokov and his racy 1955 novel Lolita. Created by LA-based architect John Bertram, the site features clips of Nabokov interviews, and studies of the many jackets the...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 9:16am By Matthew LawrenceWe're nearing the end of the American Library Association's National Banned Books Week, celebrating titles threatened by stupid busybodies from coast to coast. There were 513 challenges reported to the ALA last year, though the group estimates...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 7:10am By Matthew LawrenceThis seems to be quite the week for finding out terrible things about the sex lives of celebrity hangers-on. First Mackenzie Phillips drops the bombshell that she had an incestuous relationship with her dad for a decade of her adult life, and...
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Friday, September 11, 2009 - 8:24am By Matthew LawrenceThe Wall Street Journal reported this week on the sudden abundance of "Bonnet novels," romances written specifically about the Amish. Penned by outsiders for a general audience, they currently make up fifteen of Barnes & Noble's...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009 - 4:29pm By Chris HallUpdate 4/12 10:20pm: Amazon calls this issues a glitch and promises to fix it. In the early days of the MPAA's rating system for movies, Jack Nicholson famously observed that the unspoken standard was that if you showed someone kissing a tit, it was...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 1:33pm By Chris HallRachel Kauder-Nalebuff is 18 years old and is already getting a lot of press for the anthology she just edited, My Little Red Book, which collects women's memories of their first periods. The New York Times's review of Kauder-Nalebuff's book praises...
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